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Originally Posted by Antonin
Angola has a cool flag, with nice red and black color combination and a modified hammer and sickle. 
The reason I asked is that I'm about to resurrect my old OOTP5 African league for OOTP9.
I notice that you have a Turkish jersey. That would look quite nice in my Global League, since I have a team from Istanbul. North Korea also has a cool flag...my Global League has a team called the Pyongyang Red Giants.
How difficult is it to make jerseys? I have tried to read a couple of how-to posts that our fellow OOTPers have kindly taken the time to write, but I get lost very quickly. All that talk about transparencies and layers etc. I am artistically challenged, unfortunately. I don't have Photoshop, just Paint, and some freeware graphics programs that come on PC Utilities magazine discs.
I really admire those of you who are doing such beautiful work and sharing it with this community. |
Sorry to hijack your thread a little bit, tombair.
First off, I'd recommend downloading GIMP, a free image editor that supports layers, and Deft's jersey templates. Paint is a little too simplistic of a tool.
As far as how complex jerseys are to make, they can be as simple or as complex as you want. If you want intricate striping, it obviously takes a lot longer than if you just want a one-color chest with a jersey logo. Correct me if I'm wrong, tombair, but it looks like you're just pasting the flags onto a jersey template, which is pretty straight-forward.
In deft's template, there are 3 different things that you need to color: the collar, the main jersey, and the arms. Deft has split these into layers, and while there's a lot more in the template, for simple jerseys these are the only things you need.
When you open Deft's template in GIMP, you'll see a layers window. Layers are basically like transparencies that you can stack on top of one another to build an image in pieces. If any layers both cover the same space on the jersey, the one that is listed higher will be the one on top.
You can turn each layer on and off by clicking on the little "eye" icons listed next to each.
To paste in a flag (or any image you want on the jersey), simply open it in GIMP, select what you want to copy and copy it. Then, go to your jersey and paste the image. It won't act as a layer right away, so you have to right click on it and select "New Layer". That will make it part of your design.
Then, it's just a matter of using the scale tool to resize the image (Ctrl + dragging preserves the aspect ratio), and the move tool to move it to the right position.
If you want to change the arm color/jersey color, you can use the fill tool. There are two boxes that make up the jersey and arm layers. One is the color, and one turns it into the right shape. If you select the left one, you can fill it with a given color.
Making this tutorial and the jersey took me about 20 minutes, but I'm a little more used to the tools. Of course, I only started making jerseys 3 weeks ago, so you'll catch on fast.
For making cap logos, all you need to do is either import a logo into the game, or rename it like this:
Angola_206017038_000000000.png
The first 9 digits are the RGB color values for the color of the main hat. (206 Red, 017 Green, 038 Blue, the red color of the Angolan flag), and the second 9 digits are the color of the bill (all 0 = black). If you load that image as a cap logo in the game, it will set the colors automatically for you.
Hope this helps you get started!